2 year old intact male needs new home- Waldorf, md
 

Your first and last name: Erin Peacock
Your city and state: Waldorf, MD
Your phone number: 253-495-9662
Your email address: erinpeacock83@hotmail.com
Yorkie for sale: Ziggy
Birthdays of yorkie: Dec. 15, 2009
Age of yorkie: 2 years
Weight of yorkies parents: Father 8lbs, mother 6lbs
Current weight of yorkie: 6lbs
Registration if any: none
Price: $600.00
When puppies can be taken home: Now
Do you ship your Yorkies: Yes I can if needed.
Any additional information you want to add: I got Ziggy when he was 6 weeks old and he is very sweet and calm. He is house trained to got outside with a doggy door. Hasn't been taught to tell you when he needs to go out. Very playful and does great with my 2 year old. We are going to be traveling a lot and with a new baby on the way he needs more attention then I can give him. He is not fixed and has not had a problem with marking. Please help me find him a new home.

can you post pics?

Here is a pic of Ziggy

he's adorable!

I would neuter him before you rehome him. I would hate for him to fall into the wrong hands. IF you know what I mean.

Good luck.

I agree, neutering him is important. I'm sure your priority is to find him a good home, and neutering him would give him a better chance of finding one!

People won't usually pay that much for an older dog, $300 is usually the highest they will go. This is more of a rehoming situation so you need to give a pretty good price break, especially since they will probably want to nueter him. The problem with selling him unneutered is he may end up in a puppy mill. Good luck finding him a good home. I really wish there was something Yorkietalkers could do to help prevent this from happening. It seems like so many young women get pregnant and can't take care of their Yorkie anymore.

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Many of the foster dogs I've taken in have been rehomes due to a "new baby" either on the way or here now and the dog isn't getting enough attention. I always want to ask, if the family decides to have another baby, will the first baby be rehomed:confused::(

Many rescues will not allow homes with small children to adopt a dog, which I think should be decided more on the individual basis rather than just general policy. However, I am even more hesitant to adopt to young couples without children, as I know what will likely happen in a year or two when that couple decides to have a baby.:(

OP...please have him neutered before rehoming him, don't even take the chance that he will sire pups that will perpetuate the continuing problem of pet animal over-population.

Yes...600.00 is way too much. You main concern needs to be to have him nuetered and finding him a person/family you feel good leaving your dog with. I wouldnt be asking more than 300.00....more like 160.00 really.

I honestly do not understand that concept. I was a single Mom and still had time to care for my beloved maltese. Did he have to take a backseat for a while? Absolutley, YES. Newborns take up a lot of time.

But Casper was my FIRST baby, my loyal and faithful friend; and I could not imagine giving him up simply because I had a baby.

There was room in my heart and in my life for both.

Excellent advise as usual. I would also stress the importance of having him neutered so he will not spend the rest of his life in a cage making money for greeders. Please consider this before you sell him to someone.

Whaaaaaaa.....????? I am not questioning the accuracy of your statement...just amazed that such mentality...WON'T "take care of their Yorkie anymore"...EXISTS !

My sons are all grown up now and older than me...I am just 26...;)...but I got my first Yorkie (Yorkie-Poo), a rescue, when I was a kid in about the 7th grade and lost him to a car...thanks to a bumhead letting him out the front door while I was not home (I have NEVER recovered from THAT!)...when my first child was three (3) years old.

I had to buy him a hard kennel and fly him home to stay with my mother temporarily once...I cannot tell you what THAT did to me, either...and went back across the country to drive him home with me after moving, but I would NEVER have considered ditching my first, furry, baby for my second, human, one.

I was raised by a 16-year-old cat...my first child by an 8-year-old Yorkie-Poo. We moved to Germany after the birth of my second child...he was three (3) days old in his passport photo, taken on his way home from the hospital following his birth (they don't accept ultrasound photos for passports ;))...and I would have taken Stormy with me and would have agonized over the time he would have had to spend in quarantine just to enter the country. I regret that my second child never had a chance to know Stormy, and I treasure all the lovely photos of my fur-baby and my first skin-baby together.

What is it they say, "Mean people suck"...I guess they are right ! :D

- Cat

Sorry...I lost the edit when trying to complete it, so here is the part that got chopped off during my copy/paste:

...No offense or disrespect meant to those who truly do have 'no other choice' and are trying to 'do the right thing' for the furbaby...only referring to those individuals who simply WON'T be bothered because there is something NEW in their life...

I agree with you, but that's exactly why we Yorkietakers need to realize that some people do think this way, and maybe we could help educate before the purchase. I actually think the people who stay on YT are the exceptional pet parents. :D But not everyone think as we do. I don’t want to criticize anyone for making this decision, there may be more going into it than we realize, but what I’m saying is that this happens all the time, and I was just trying to figure out a way we could help educate so that young women think about this before buying a yorkie. I don’t want to “guilt” anyone into keeping their dog, a dog is a gift from God, in my opinion, and should be treated like the treasure it is.

I absolutely agree! A dog is a gift from God and anyone who feels 'forced' to keep a dog out of 'guilt' will not treat the dog properly, and the dog deserves much better than that because his love will be unconditional !

I do absolutely think you are right about getting the word out, though, and the internet certainly 'seems' to be the way, especially with a forum ready and waiting. It seems to me, however, that the internet's biggest drawback these days is that it can be difficult to find the reliable information you seek due to there being plenty of hype, junk, and advertisements.

I wish I knew what the answer is, and I absolutely applaud you for your recommendation. I would just not want such valuable information to be negated by being received too late or amount to little more than 'preaching to the choir'...and I do not mean that in a bad way at all. I am affiliated with ventures as well and see that particular, unsuccessful technique recommended and executed frequently, unfortunately...perhaps because our lives are so fragmented now that there may not even be a 'good way' anymore...outside of 'spam texting' every cell phone in the country...;)...which I wouldn't like, and wouldn't do...;)...to reach the 'right people'...those who need to receive the information.

If there is a good or successful way, if even one (1) puppy is saved from having to be rescued, the effort is worth it, and the information that could be written in such an article, or series of articles, would undoubtedly be invaluable to more people than anyone might realize.

But, unless there is a lobbyist in D.C., or a vaccination for such knowledge that can be pushed ad nauseum on TV and forced on newborns, perhaps a way to educate young women might be by mothers through organizations for girls or who counsel girls in some way...Girls' Clubs, Scouting, school (do they still have FHA) and church programs (even clergy during pre-matrimony counseling), 4-H, heck...how about sequined T's from the mall, "Pick one: (1) Human Baby vs. Dog OR (2) Just Love Both !" . ;)

You're right...I'm outa control again...:D

But seriously, an emailable flyer to heads and/or local reps of such organizations might get somewhere...without much cost...something they could forward without much more than the energy it takes to change a TV channel. Perhaps, with everything else that goes on in people's lives today, they just do not know any such thing is even happening...this is the 'modern world' isn't it ? Just a (ok...rambling) thought. :)

Thanks for caring so much !!! It's becoming a lost art!

- Cat